Modding console / debugger

[Arcatus]

Short and simple (?) question

Is there any way a console (or similar) can be used to show typos or syntax errors in mods?

Just something as simple as "File: mod_test.gdb not loaded - syntax error" would be a step in the right direction.

The modding environment in this game is amongst the simplest I have encountered (so big kudos to the dev there!) but I am still doing silly mistakes.. so any clever tricks? (other than proofreading syntax )

[Shadow]

If you look in the console (~ key), it will show you some errors, but most of the time you are going to need to be careful and not make mistakes.

[Arcatus]

Originally Posted by Shadow

If you look in the console (~ key), it will show you some errors, but most of the time you are going to need to be careful and not make mistakes.

Aww. Well, atleast the game loads fast

Anyway, in a danger of turning this into a bit of "quiz the dev"

The file Hulls.gdb has entires like

	Name		$$HullName2$$

I want to edit the ship name - and I can't find any files that defines that attribute? Am I crossing into hard-coded territory?

[Shadow]

The $$ stuff means it's going through the localization/translation stuff. In this case, HullName2 is an entry in Loc/English/items.trn

Mods don't need to go through the localization stuff though. Just Replace $$HullName2$$ with whatever your new name is. If it has a space in the name it will need "" around the name though.

[Arcatus]

Great! Thanks